Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

NEW MEXICO GENERALLY.
ago, when the natives drove out or killed all the inhabitants.
In the south-west corner, on the San Juan River,
Colorado (then in Mexico) is found some remarkable
ruins. One of these deserted human bee-hives was
five hundred feet long, enclosed with a wall a foot
thick, and thirty feet high, of solid stone, and six
stories high.
Nearly three hundred years ago Spanish Missionaries found in New Mexico Indians who raised
cotton, manufactured cloth, and lived in towns with
streets, having dwellings like the present Pueblos
Indians. The founders of these towns were of that
remarkable order, whose unflagging energy and4)erfect organization achieved such conquests over all
that country. Remains of old Jesuit Missions are
scattered through California, Arizona, New Mexico,
Old Mexico, and Cential America.
This vast region of country was converted to the old
Roman faith, by life.long labor of this society, and not
by the over-enthusiasm of Cortez and his robbers,
who hurled the native idols to the ground, to replace
them with the cross. The Santa Fe Cathedral is a
high adobe edifice with effigies of the Saviour and
the Virgin, with life-size paintings of these scenes
hanging on the walls.
In Taos there is a building of Indian origin, which
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